EY GDS Business Consulting Supply Chain & Operations Senior Consultant

As part of our Business Consulting Supply Chain & Operations (SC&O;) team, we are seeking highly motivated professionals to help EY clients across sectors deliver Supply Chain and Operations transformation programs, leveraging data, analytics, and AI as key enablers.

While the role will focus primarily on Procurement function, the skilled is expected to have knowledge of the overall supply chain management, including Planning, Inventory Management, Warehousing, and Logistics, to support transformation programs for MENA region clients.

The Opportunity

Were looking for a Senior Consultant within Business Consulting Supply Chain & Operations (SC&O;) with strong functional expertise across procurement and supply chain domains, complemented by handson experience in applying AI and advanced analytics to solve business problems.

This role focuses on shaping supply chain and procurement strategies, operating models, and transformation roadmaps, while leveraging analytics & AI as a key enabler to drive insightled decisionmaking, efficiency, and value realization across client engagements within the MENA region.

Key responsibilities

- Lead and support procurement transformation initiatives, with strong emphasis on procurement strategy, category management, sourcing, supplier performance, and governance
- Diagnose currentstate SC&O; capabilities and define futurestate operating models, processes, and performance frameworks
- Support clients across planning, inventory management, warehousing, and logistics, ensuring endtoend supply chain alignment
- Translate business priorities into clear, phased SC&O; transformation roadmaps, articulating value across cost, service,



resilience, risk, and compliance
- Identify AI, advanced analytics, and automation use cases to enhance procurement and supply chain decisionmaking (e.g., spend analytics, demand forecasting, supplier risk, contract intelligence)
- Design business requirements for supply chain and procurement control towers as decisionsupport layers, integrating data across sourcetopay, planning, inventory, warehousing, and logistics
- Translate functional requirements into practical AI use cases, ensuring solutions are businessdriven, usable, and valuefocused
- Collaborate with internal teams to ensure AI solutions are fitforpurpose, scalable, and governed.
- Enable knowledge transfer through training, documentation, and best practices within SC&O; teams
- Contribute to proposal development and solution shaping for SC&O; and procurement engagements
- Champion responsible AI principles, governance, and ethical use of AI within SC&O; transformations
- Continuously improve solutions through feedback loops, performance metrics, and benefit tracking

Skills And Attributes for Success

To qualify for the role, you must have:

- Strong supply chain & procurement domain expertise, with ability to link digital and AI capabilities to business outcomes
- Functional experience in SC&O; transformation, operatingmodel design, and execution support




- Ability to use AI and analytics as business enablers
- A consulting mindset with stakeholdermanagement and communication skills
- Analytical, problemsolving oriented, and outcome-focused behaviour
- Comfort working in complex, multistakeholder transformation environments
- Adaptability to evolving digital, data, and AI trends within supply chain

To qualify for the role, you must have:
- 5+ years of experience in Supply Chain & Operations or procurement consulting, with exposure to transformation engagements
- Proven experience applying analytics, automation, and AI solutions within Supply Chain or Procurement contexts
- Strong understanding of procurement and SC&O; processes, operating models, and performance metrics
- Minimum Bachelors degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Science, or a related field
- Working knowledge of advanced analytics and AI concepts, datadriven decisionmaking and reporting
- Experience with tools such as Power BI or any analytics platform is an advantage
- Familiarity or experience in agentic AI configuration and intelligent automation
- Experience applying AI to supply chain and procurement use cases is highly preferred
- Relevant AI / Analytics certifications are an advantage
- Willingness to travel onsite for client assignments
- Willingness to work Sunday to Thursday and support MENA client timings (11:00 AM 8:30 PM IST)

What we look for
- Professionals with strong commercial acumen, SC&O; domain depth, and AI knowledge
- Individuals excited about building procurement and supply chain capabilities with AI as key enabler
- Team players who thrive in fastpaced, global consulting environments

📌 Business Consulting - Supply Chain and Operations - Senior Consultant (Kochi)
🏢 EY
📍 Kochi